Pre-surgical high resolution ultrasound of facial basal cell carcinoma: Correlation with histology

Cancer Imaging

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 163-172

  Bobadilla, Francisco ^a   Wortsman, Ximena ^b   Muñoz, Carla ^a   Segovia, Laura ^a   Espinoza, Miguel ^a   Jemec, Gregor B E ^c,d  

^a HOSPITAL BARROS LUCO TRUDEAU   (Chile)

^b Clinica Hospital del Profesor and Clinica Servet Santiago   (Chile)

^c ROSKILDE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Basal cell carcinoma ultrasound; Basocellular carcinoma imaging; BCC ultrasound; Dermatology ultrasound; Skin cancer imaging; Skin ultrasound, non invasive imaging skin

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FACE CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; COHORT STUDIES; FACE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOHS SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 54749102343     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14707330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1102/1470-7330.2008.0026     Document Type: Article

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